BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

You know what Larry Scott needs to do?

Find a quality replacement for Rick Neuheisel, stat.

If UCLA could become a power again, joining USC, Oregon (provided they don't get NCAA-slammed), and to a lesser degree ASU, Stanford and Cal, then all would be fine with the Pac-12.

 

Navy moreso than Army. Navy has higher ambitions for football. While Army isn't as dire as they used to be, they left Conference USA in part becuase the level of competition was too high. At one point there was talk about dialing back to I-AA.

 

I don't understand the idea that something is wrong with the Pac-12. They just went to 12, which got them the network and the football championship game, which is where the big money is. Going to 16, if it leads to such hassle, is really not worth it. I think that's one thing slowing it all down, even the SEC can't be sure that it's going to make a whole lot of new money by adding just any old teams to be at 16 for the sake of being at 16.

 

I thought I read somewhere that one reason for the Pac-12 to freeze out Texas (for now), is because of... you guessed it, the Longhorn Network. The Pac-12 has its own network coming, don't you know.

And the Pac-12, nor anyone else, will take Oklahoma without Texas. Oklahoma is OK (I sound like a license plate), but Texas is the prize.

By the way, given what sports fan he is, I half-expect Obama, in his speech to the U.N. today, to say something like: "We live in troubled times. The European Union is falling apart like the Big 12."

 

Look the Pac-12 MEMBERS were in no way shape or form taking Texas on its terms, especially Colorado, who didn't exactly head to the Pac-12 cryin as it saw Austin in its rear view mirror.

And Jenni Carlson's report of an Oklahoma plan? Yeah right. Texas has Oklahoma and OSU as its bitches as much as Boren and the boys don't like it. Boren can't get OU into the SEC because the SEC wouldn't want OSU. They should huddle with KU and Mizzou and make a focused effort on the ACC. Great solution, no but it's the only way they mess with Texas.

Of course at that point, Texas realizes independence sucks and has to tweak the network, and winds up in the Pac 12 anyway.

http://newsok.com/jenni-carlson-the-oklahoma-plan-is-so-crazy-it-just-might-work/article/3606061?custom_click=lead_story_title

 

I'll ask again. Why does any conference need to grow to 16 teams?

 

The Lawrence Journal-World is reporting that the SEC is furious with Mizzou for allowing a booster to blab about a potential invite and the Big 12 is, once again, annoyed at Mizzou for publicly whoring itself out.

http://www2.kusports.com/news/2011/sep/21/time-conference-realignment-madness-ku-silence-gol/

 

Oklahoma's got 2 options:

-- Remain Texas' bitch
-- Go to the SEC as Team 14

And from everything that's been writtern, option 2 isn't really an option.

 

The problem is, option 2 could have been an option.

 

What a blow job of a column that is. The Lawrence columnist writes that everything KU has done is right, when what KU has "done" is basically not anything because KU has no power to do anything.

In tone and in name (www.kusports.com) I can't tell if that's an independent site or a university shill.

 

I would jump up and down if the Big 12 completely disbanded and Texas had no conference.

The deal Texas cut in 1996 or whenever it was eventually led to Colorado, Nebraska and A&M leaving and if the Big 12 disbands, Texas will shoulder about 95 percent of the blame.